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Indigenous Peoples in Higher Education: Inherited Histories and Pernicious Status Quos

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Alex Red Corn Recently at our Indigenous Peoples Day gathering at Kansas State University, Chief Ben Barnes of the Shawnee spoke from the heart about matters related to Shawnee histories and their ongoing presence as a Native nation. and worldwide, have a complicated relationship with institutions of education.

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Tribal Colleges and Universities as Conduits for Intellectual and Political Sovereignties

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education or universities, specifically. However, there is a network of tribally run colleges and universities that are the ongoing extension of those sovereignties as well as key vehicles for continuing to liberate the sovereign potential. These priorities often are not the focus in U.S. There are 37 TCUs within the U.S.

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Sac State Receives Funding for Nation’s First Black Honors College

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The California State University has allocated $250,000 in one-time funding that will be used to support Sacramento State’s new Black Honors College. Dr. Luke Wood The funds will be used to help support the school's Black Honors College. It is designed for students who are interested in Black history, life, and culture.

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A Life of Ministry

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McManus knew the importance of education. McManus graduated valedictorian of her high school and went on to Clemson University, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in special education and a master’s degree in counseling with an emphasis in student affairs. Dr. Kimberly O. By 2000, McManus was ready to relocate to Maryland.

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Dr. J. Luke Wood Appointed to California Racial Equity Commission

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Luke Wood Wood is currently vice president for student affairs and campus diversity and chief diversity officer (CDO) at San Diego State University (SDSU). He has previously been co-director of the Community College Equity Assessment Lab (CCEAL); director of the joint Ph.D. Program in Community College Leadership.

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Diverse Students Need Diverse Faculty

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Community colleges serve the most diverse students in all of higher education. The KSU-CCLP is a unique program that prioritizes recruiting women and minorities as future leaders that reflect the demographics of community colleges. A fully designed doctoral curriculum in which all courses focus on the community college.

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Pathways to Racial Democracy in America

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At the center of this national future-choosing is urban public education Dr. Curtis L. As an educational and civic leader in the Detroit metropolitan region, I see every day the evidence of this paradox. Board of Education , but it also represents a new definition of public schools in the U.S. as multiracial institutions.

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